Spooling-machine.



No. 655,6l6.

, Patented Aug. 7, |900. C. F. FOSTER.

SPDOLING MACHINE.

(Application filed Jan. 27, 1900.)

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No. 655,6l6. Patented Aug. 7, |900. C. F. FOSTER.

SPDOLING MACHINE.

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CHARLES F. FOSTER, OE IVESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE FOSTERMACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SPOOLING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,616, dated August7, 1900. Application filed January 27, 1900. Serial No. 2,931. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it' may concern:

De it known that I, CHARLES F. FOSTER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Vestfield, in the county of Hampden and State ofMassachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Spooling-Machines, ofwhich the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawingsrepresenting like 1o parts.

This invention has for its object to improve the construction ofspooling-machines, such as represented in United States Patent No.535,616, dated March l2, 1895, wherein a device carrying a cone-shapedor atubular shell on which the thread or yarn is wound is rotated bycontact with a Winding-roller driven by a drum.

My present invention includes a novel conzo struction of winding-rolland novel mechanism for stopping the rotation of the winding-roll tostop the rotation of the shell receiving the thread or yarn and also anovel construction of means for supporting the arm carrying thewinding-spindle, whereby the thread or yarn after the saine has beenwound upon the shell will not be cut or broken by the action of thethread-guide against the wound mass of thread or yarn.

3o Figure 1 of the drawings represents a partial front side elevation ofthe spooling-machine containing my present improvements. Fig. 2 showspart of a carrier and its spindle, the latter carrying a conical shell.Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of the parts represented in Fig. l lookingatit from the right. Fig. et is an enlarged longitudinal section of thewindingroller; and Fig. 5 is a detail showing the arm D and itssupporting-stand in section and its pivot e8 in elevation, said detailshowing the tension device for said arm.

Referring to the drawings, A represents one end of the framework of amachine, A the main shaft thereof, and A2 one of a series of drumshaving a spiral groove A3 to receive a pivoted shoe 2, (see Fig. 1,)connected loosely through a suitable stud 3 with athread-guide 4, guidedby a suitable bar, as 5. The shaft d10 derives its movement from asprocketchain a5, Fig. 3, fast on the hub of a toothed gear a7, loose ona stud a8, supported by the frame, said gear being driven by a piniona4@ on the shaft A', said shaft d10 having a stopmotion-movingratchet-wheel d20, adapted to engage the toothed end of a lever b,pivoted 55 at b and maintained normally in the position shown in Fig. 3by contact with a suite able projection 6, connected with a slide-bar196, sai'd ratchet being adapted to be turned about its pivot to put itshooked end in the 6o path of movement of said ratchet-Wheel whenever adrop device, as b3, normally hanging on thethread, drops by reason ofbreakage of the thread to effect the stopping of the machine, and thecross-rod e, mounted in uprights erected upon the frame sides, are andmay be substantially as represented in said United States patent, itbeing understood that in practice the machine to be herein describedwill have contacting with the drum at two 7o or more points suitabledriving-rollers to actuatea plurality of series of spindles carryingshells upon which the thread or yarn is to be wound, as provided for insaid patent.

The arm D, provided with the spring a3, the spindle d', having a head a2pivoted at d on a part of said arm, and the conical block a4, loose onsaid spindle and havingat one side thereof a recess which is adapted toreceive in it the free ends of shell-holding springs g', 8o which may beprovided with points, as g2, to enter the paper or other tube d, are andmay be all substantially as fully described in United States Patent No.535,617, dated March l2, 1895, with the exception that the shape of thearm D and the point where it is pivoted are hereindifferentlyconstructed.

The spindle aL receives about it, as provided for in the latter patent,a carrier or tube c, with which the springs g are suitably 9o connected,and this carrier or tube, rotatable freely on or With relation to thespindle, has a head c3, which is of a shape and diameter to properlylill one end of the shell, either a cone or a cylinder, the opposite endof the carrier or tube meeting and supporting the shell at its outer orsmall end, .the carrier or tube being kept upon the spindle by means ofa suitable set-screw, as c2, working against a washer, as c. f

Having briefly referred to parts which are old and common, l will nowdescribe the pari IOO ticular features in which my present inven tionconsists.

In the Patent No. 535,616 referred to the rod e, located in asubstantially-vertical line above the main shaft A/ and paralleltherewith, served as a fulcrum for the arm D, carrying the spindle alreferred to, and as the yarn mass was increased in diameter the swingingof the arm from the center described therein caused such a movementofthe yarn mass that it came into theline of travel of the thread-guide,which by striking against the yarn mass resulted in cutting the threador yarn already wound into the yarn mass, thus destroying the valuethereof. To overcome the possibility of the yarn mass being struck bythe reciprocating thread-guide, I have changed the pivotal point of thearm D by providing the rod e With a series of collars e', havingprojections e?, which receive in an adjustable manner the shanks ofsuitable stands e3, said stands being held adjustablyin said projectionsby means of suitable set-screws e4, the shanks being rounded, so thatthey may be rotated more or less in the sleeves in order to secure foreach spindle ci the proper horizontal alinement. These shanks receive astud e5, upon which I have mounted a suitable latch or yarn-holder e6,it having at its lower end a suitable hook, as e", (represented bydotted lines in Fig. 3,) and said stand also receives in a dependingbranch thereof a stud es, constituting the fulcrum for the arm, wherebysaid fulcrum is brought quite close to the surface of the drum a2 andquite close to the path in which reci procates the thread-guide 4, thearm D so mounted moving up and down in the arc of a circle describedfrom the pivot es, which is so located that the yarn or thread mass willnot come into the path of movement of and be struck by the reciprocatingthread-guide, and consequently the wound thread or yarn is not injuredor broken during the Winding operation.

The pivot es, supporting the arm D, is located at one side of a verticalline intersecting the shaft carrying the drum, such location of saidpivot enabling the arm during the thread-winding operation to swing, dueto increase of thickness of the thread or yarn mass thereon, it movingin such an arc of a circle that the thread mass cannot after it is Woundcontact with the reciprocating threadguide.

The arm D has projecting inwardly from it (see dotted lines, Fig. 3) asuitable projection CZ', and said arm has an attached weight d2, made asa handpiece, which when the Winding is to be stopped or when a shell dis to be applied to receive thread or yarn or a wound shell is to beremoved will be lifted, as herein represented, by hand and put into thedotted-line position, Fig. 3, in which position the hook e7 of the latchwill engage said projection and maintain the arm and spindle in theirinoperative position.

Herein I have represented the latch e as normally occupying a positiondue to gravit-y to automatically engage the projection d whenever thearm D is lifted, and to release the arm it is only necessary forthe-operator to take hold of the upper end of the latch and turn itbackwardly or to the right, viewing Fig. 3, and thereafter the arm D maybe brought into position to have the thread wound upon the cone or tubecarried thereby.

The driving-rolls herein represented are of novel construction (see Fig.4)-as, for instance, the driving-roll is composed of severalindependently-movable sections, the section m being herein representedas of the greatest length, being secured by a set-screw 10 to a suitablesleeve m the sleeve having, as herein shown, iixed to it outside one endof the section m by a screw 13 a roller m2, the sleeve at the oppositeside of the section 'm having applied to it loosely three rollers m5,m4, and m5, the latter rollers being held on the sleeve bya collar mx,through which is extended a set-screw 12. The section m has a leathercover 14. Thesleeve ml, with its parts constituting a winding-roller, isapplied loosely to a journal f5, supported as will'be hereinafterdescribed.

For the best results the arm D should be held when in its operativeposition by suliicient friction, so that it will be moved onlypositively by the increasing diameter of the yarn mass, and to providefor this friction or tension I may place between the head of the bolt e8and the stand e3, .through which the bolt is inserted preparatory toentering a hole in the inner end of the arm D, any usual spring ortension device e30, so that by adjusting the nut e1L the etfectiv'estrength or tension of this spring may be varied according to the yarnbeing wound.

The slide 226, before described, has at its lower side a suitabletwo-faced cam bm, which rests upon a two-faced cam 512, the said camsbeing kept in operative contact-by or through a suitable spring 513,suitably connected at one end with said slide and at its opposite endwith a projection, as b, from the camshaped bar 1312. The front end ofthe slide be is loopshaped and is represented as adapted to be engagedby the operator, Whenever for any reason he desires to stop the Windingoperation; but this bar may be slid also automatically to stop thewinding operationwhenever the thread or yarn t, coming from any suitablesource and being wound upon the shell d, which may be a cone or acylindrical tube, is broken, this being done by the ratchet- Wheel d20,before described, engaging the hook of the lever l).

I have mounted upon a suitable cross-bar A8, it in practice connectingthe opposite ends of the Aframe of the machine, suitable uprights f',the upper ends of said uprights being suitably shaped (see Fig. 3) toreceive the bar 5, upon which slides the thread-guide 4, said bar havingits under side and edges IOO seated and held seated in suitable notchesof the stand by a clamp, as f2, held in position by a suitable setscrew,as f3, actingnpon the upper side of said bar to confine it tlxedly inposition to receive and guide the th read-guide 4, the latter being madeas light as possible to thereby overcome the strains due to momentum, aswhen changing the direction of movement of the thread-guide rapidly. Toprovide for this lightness in weight of the thread-guide, I have madethe same in skeleton form, and the bar 5 is set angularly, asrepresented in Fig. 3, so that the pin 3, carrying the shoe 2, mayextend inwardly directly from the inner side of the foot of thethread-guide and enter the groove in the drum.

Each drum A2, usually a number of them, mounted upon the shaft A atsuitable distances apart, is held in position on said shaft by means ofa suitable set-screw A12.

The uprights f have open bearings fl to receive the journal f5 for thewinding-roller, said bearings having suitable holes to receivejournal-elevators, represented as dowel-pins f6, the lowerend of saiddowel-pins resting loosely upon inwardly-extended arms f7, connectedwith a rock-shaftf8 by suitable setscrews fg, there being two such armsfor each journal. The rock-shaft]C8 is surrounded between the uprights fby a sleeve flo, fixed thereto by set-screws g', said sleeve flo havinga suitable arm fm, to the lower end of which is jointed by a pinf13 theinner end of the slide Il, and, as herein represented, said arm fm hasconnected with it at f14 a rodfl, in turn jointed at f16 to a suitableblock f, pivoted at fis, said pivot carrying the dropwire, so thatwhenever the rod b is moved inwardly or to the right, Viewing Fig. 3,preparatory to stopping the machine the arm]C12 will be moved in suchdirection as to cause the rod fl5 to lift the drop-wire b3, putting itinto the position Fig. 3, all ready to be again handily threadedpreparatory to starting the machine again into operation.- Whenever thelever j"12 is turned in the direction of the arrow on it in Fig. 3,whether by the hand of the operator or by a broken thread, the armsflwill be raised and acting upon the journalelevators or dowel-pins f6will lift the journal, removing the driving-rolls immediately fromfrictional contact with the drum, so that the driving-roll will be leftat rest, the drum continuing its rotation and the thread-guidecontinuing its rotation.

The hub f1 has connected with it in any suit-able manner suitablespring-pieces, as gw, against which may contact Vthe ends of thethread-guide I as the latter reaches the end of its winding stroke, saidsprings aidingin overcoming the momentum of the thread-guide and bytheir reaction aiding in changing the direction of movement of thethread-guide.

The cross-bar A8 has suitably connected with it thread or yarn supportst, represented as slotted to receive and guide the drop devices, saidsupports also sustaining the fulcrum f18 for the drop devices.

I have herein shown dowelpins as the journal-litters, they being thesimplest form of lifting device known to me; but it will be obvious thatany movable device occupyingY a position in or near the bearingssupporting the journal f5'and adaptedto act on the lower side of thesame to slide the said journal in a direction to remove the roller fromcontact with the drum may be employed and yet be within the scope of myinvention.

I-Iaving described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a spooling-machine, a drum, a winding-roll adapted to be rotatedthereby and mounted loosely upon a suitable journal, and meanscooperating with said journal to lift it and remove the roll fromfrictional contact with said drum.

2. In a spooling-machine, a winding-roll composed of a roller having afixed sleeve eX- tended therefrom, a plurality of rollers loose on saidsleeve.

3. In a spooling-machine, a winding-roll composed of a roller having afixed sleeve eX- tended therefrom,a plurality of rollers loose on saidsleeve, and a journal to sustain said sleeve loosely.

at. In a spooling-machine, a drum, means to rotate it, a winding-rollhaving a journal, bearings to sustain said journal, journal-liftingmeans extended through said bearings,

and means to slide said journal-lifting means to remove the Winding-rollfrom .contact with said drum.

5. In a spooling-machine, a journal supporting a winding-roll, a standhaving bearings for'the journal of said winding-roll, dowel-pins guidedin said bearings, a stopmotion device adapted to be operated by thebreakage ot' the thread or yarn being Wound, and means controlled bysaid stop-motion device to move said dowel-pins in said bearings to meetand lift the journal of said roll from its bearings.

6. In a spooling-machine, a winding-roll, suitable bearings for thejournal of said roll, a rock-shaft having arms, means actuated by saidarms and adapted to act upon the journal of said windingrolls to liftthe same from its bearings, means to operate said rock shaft.

7. In a spooling-machine, a shaft, a drum carried thereby,areciprocating thread-guide, a winding-roll adapted to be rotated by saiddrum, an arm carrying a spindle, a pivot for said arm parallel with thelongitudinal axis of said drum, said pivot being located suba stantiallyclose to said drum and at one side a vertical line intersecting thelongitudinal axis of the drum and the axis of said winding-roll, thedescribed location of the pivot of said arm preventing the contact ofthe eni larging thread mass with the reciprocating thread-guide.

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8. In a spooling-machine, a drum, a rod parallel with the axis ofrotation of said drum, a stand rotatably and slidably mounted upon orwith relation to said rod and having a depending ear, an arm carrying aspindle and pivoted upon said depending ear whereby said pivot islocated substantially close to the surface of the drum and at one sideof a vertical line intersecting the axis of rotation of said drum. Y

9.' In a spooling-machine, a drum, a rod parallel with the axis ofrotation of said drum, a sleeve adjustably mounted on said rod, a standhaving its shank adjustable and rotatable in said sleeve, said standhaving a depending ear and a pivot, combined with an arm mounted to turnon said pivot and carrying a spindle provided with a tube for thereception of a shell on which the thread or yarn is to be wound.

lO. In a spooling-machine, a drum, a rod parallel with the axis ofrotation of said drum, a sleeve adjustably mounted on said rod, a standhaving its shank adjustable and rotatable in said sleeve, said standhaving a depending ear and a pivot, an arm surrounding said pivot, and atension device cooperating with said pivot to produce friction upon saidarm that it may be moved only positively during the winding operationdue to increase in diameter of the thread mass being wound.

11. In a spooling-machine, a drum, a shaft carrying said drum, a rodoccupying a position parallel with the axis of rotation of said drum,stands ad j ustably connected with said rod and having a depending ear,an arm pivotally mounted on the ear of said stand and carrying aspindle, and a locking device to engage a suitable projection of saidarm when the latter is put in its inoperative position, said lockingdevice retaining said arm in such position for the removal of thread oryarn from the spindle or the application of a new shell to the spindle.

l2. In a spooling-machine, the following instrumentalities, viz: a drumhaving a spiral groove, a rod parallel with the axis of motion of saiddrum, a winding-roller, means to sustain the journal of said roller,dowelpins acting upon said journal, means to move said dowel-pins to actupon said journal and remove the driving-roll kfrom contact with saiddrum, an arm having a spindle, said arm being pivoted upon a dependingear of 'a stand adjustably mounted upon or with pins acting upon saidjournal, means to move said dowel-pins to act upon said journal andremove the driving-roll from contact with said drum, an arm having` aspindle, said arm being pivoted upon a depending ear of a standadjnstably mounted upon or with relation to said rod, and means toresist frictionally the movement of said arm due to increase of diameterof thel thread mass being wound about a shell carried by a spindlemounted in said arm, and a suitable locking device connected with saidstand and coperating with said arm to hold the latter in its adj ustedposition.

14. In a spooling-machine, stands having bearings, a journal mounted inYsaid stands, a winding-roller mounted loosely on said journal,dowel-pins occupying a position in said bearing to contact with theunder sides of said journals, and means to automatically lift saiddowel-pins to move the journals in the bearings and break the contact ofthe winding-roller from the drum employed to actuate it. A

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CHARLES F. FOSTER.

Witnesses:

A. F. LILLEY, C. K. GAMBEON.

